The Department of Energy (DoE), Ministry of Energy and Mines of the State of Eritrea, has commenced a Wind Energy Applications Project funded by the Government of Eritrea (GoE) and the UNDP/GEF.
Part of this project entails the supply,
installation and commissioning of small wind turbines (3 kW to 30 kW
capacities) for water pumping and rural electrification of seven
villages in Eritrea,
listed below, and also identified
in the attached location map.

The DoE is therefore issuing this
letter to invite companies, manufacturers, integrators, or joint
ventures to e-mail or fax back the attached one page FORM to express
your interest to bid for the entire project or part of the project as
summarized below:

The project scope categorized by
capacity is:1. Three -30 kW
Wind Turbines for Wind-Diesel Hybrid Operation - One 30 kW wind turbine will be installed in
each of three villages namely Berasoli, Rahaita and Haleb, on the
southern coast of Eritrea. All three villages are remote off-grid
sites. These three villages will have the wind systems integrated with
existing or planned diesel generator/s to provide hybrid wind-diesel
systems. Each site will have a minimum of 80 kW in Diesel generator/s
for base load and the wind turbines will be connected to the diesel
generated system to offset the use of fuel. .2. Two- 10 kW
Stand Alone Wind Turbines - Two
remote off-grid village sites require one 10 Kw stand-alone wind
turbine each. The villages are Gizgiza in the northern part of Eritrea
and Beilul in the southern coast.3. One -5 kW Stand
Alone Wind Turbine -One 5 kW
wind turbine is to be installed in Gaharo, to supply electricity to a
small remote off-grid village with less than 90 households. The houses
are widely dispersed and not clustered.4. Two -Wind Water
Pumps - The village of Gaharo,
a remote off-grid site located in the southern coast will require one 3
kW electrical wind water pump. The village of Dekemhare, in the central
part of Eritrea will require a mechanical wind water pump that is
approximately rated to an equivalent capacity of 3 kW.

The table below lists the desired
type of renewable energy configuration for each village, the proposed
size of wind generation required in kW, the number of households
existing in each village, and the typical average annual wind speed in
meters per second recorded for each village.

RE Type

Village name

Minimum wind generation kW

Number of households

Average annual wind speed

Wind-diesel Hybrids

Berasoli

30

108

6.8 m/s

Rahaita

30

117

6.8 m/s

Heleb

30

200

7.3 m/s

Wind Stand alone

Beilul

10

198

5.8 m/s

Gzgiza

16

225

6.2 m/s

Gaharo

5

99

7.0 m/s

WindWaterPump

Gaharo

3

99

7.0 m/s

Dekemhare

3

30

6.0 m/s

Interested bidders who respond to
this Expression of Interest, will receive a bid package which includes
detailed information on each of the village sites, and a request to
supply us with your capabilities and capacities of the available wind
turbines and the level of support that will be provided to implement
the Eritrea Wind Energy Project.